The Sisters
Director : Pawel Lozinski
Running time: 12 minutes
Poland 1999

Post Screening Discussion with Director

A documentary theatre of the absurd in one act. Two elderly sisters sit on a bench and talk.

A twelve minute glimpse into their long lives reveals the human condition in all its complexities.

Pawel Lozinski, son of the celebrated Polish filmmaker Marcel Lozinski, is a graduate of the National Film School in Poland. His films have won numerous awards, including The Grand Prix, Cracow for both ‘The Sisters’ and ‘The Way It Is’ in 1999. One of his earliest films ‘Voyage’ won the best young filmmaker of the year, Edynburg 1991

Filmography: Pani z Ukraini (2002); The Sisters (1999); the Way It Is (1999) Gutter (1996); A Hundred Years in the Cinema (1995) (The Polish part of the series made for the British Film Institute to mark a 100 years of cinema); Birthplace (1992) and Voyage (1990).

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